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[edit] Badghis is safe now?

http://www.pajhwok.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=47223 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZXR222 (talk • contribs) 09:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pashto not spoken?

On 7 December 2007 KabulHospital said "Pashto is not spoken in Badghis", and deleted the Pashto name leaving the Persian. The linguistic map of the area indicates that Turkman is the predominant language, but that both Pashto and Dari (a form of Persian) are spoken, Pashto a lot more than Dari. The lead sentence originally read: Badghis (Persian: بادغیس) (Pashto: د بادغيس ولايت) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Are the non-English names used by groups that are in a severe minority in the province irrelevant to the article? The Turkman name for the province might be useful. Perhaps the others should be removed. What do you all think? --Bejnar (talk) 01:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Even the Turkmen do not speak their own language. Uzbeks and Turkmen in Afghanistan usually use Dari Persian instead, otherwise they couldn't communicate with the other ethnic groups. Also the Turkmen language is not native to Badghis and neither is the Pashto language. The original language in Badghis (and the language still most spoken today) is Dari Persian. See the Iranica entry on Badghis. Quebecer (talk) 17:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

There are Pashto speakers in Badghis, but they Pashto is not used there. The language the different ethnic groups communicate with eacher in is Dari-Persian. Quebecer (talk) 17:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I do understand that Dari is the lingua franca for inter-tribal communication in much of Afghanistan, and I am willing to believe (without citation) that that is true in Badghis as well; however, that doesn't address the issue of the native languages of the peoples that are actually there. The scholarly documents indicate that the Turkmen people in Badghis speak a Turkmen language, even though they may be functionally bilingual. I understand that the Sunni Aimak speak a variety of Persian as their native language as well. Based on the use of Dari as a lingua franca, I can see keeping the non-English names for the province. --Bejnar (talk) 17:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)